How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Buffalo home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do so much, like changing temperature settings or checking video streams directly from your cell phone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work together. 

Here are some examples of what you might program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a certain length of time
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain times of day

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You can even establish a varied bedtime scene that locks doors, dims lighting, and arms your system in unison. The top home security systems in Buffalo make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Buffalo home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to manage customizing your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like Vivint’s let you add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various suggested automation actions you can simply turn on.  

Here’s a quick rundown of how to customize a new action, also referred to as a rule:

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Set the action by picking what you wish to occur. For example, you could want to begin a surveillance recording, activate your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. As an example, you might want a light to turn on when a motion detector trips or a surveillance device to record when a door lock is engaged. You might also initiate an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's usability, you essentially just tap what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you can choose which camera you want from a list. You will also select the door if there are multiple options. The rule can be programmed for all hours or only for certain timeframes.

Find the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while getting better protection for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Buffalo today by dialing (716) 567-8226 and connecting with a Vivint professional.